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General Mach Discussion / How to recover from power interuption?
« on: September 09, 2010, 11:24:09 PM »
I have moved to Africa for my old age and would like to do some CNC milling and MACH3 seem the answer.
Problem. -- In this part of the world we often get power outages.
To get over this I could use a UPS to keep things going for a very short time.
It seem to me that I would need an input to MACH3 that would lift the cutter to a safe height and send x & y to zero, (so that when power is restored I can start over without losing registration) then power everything down.
I could do it all, except, the "getting MACH3 to do what is needed when given an external input.
My intention would be to do work that may take many hours to run, so the machine will be un-attended.
Anyone know if this can be done?
Dennis
I think that I posted this in the wrong place at first; sorry!
Problem. -- In this part of the world we often get power outages.
To get over this I could use a UPS to keep things going for a very short time.
It seem to me that I would need an input to MACH3 that would lift the cutter to a safe height and send x & y to zero, (so that when power is restored I can start over without losing registration) then power everything down.
I could do it all, except, the "getting MACH3 to do what is needed when given an external input.
My intention would be to do work that may take many hours to run, so the machine will be un-attended.
Anyone know if this can be done?
Dennis
I think that I posted this in the wrong place at first; sorry!